Update from the land of craziness

Well, now we are applying for a K-3 visa (nonimmigrant). It should only take two months to get a call from Montreal (after Chicago and Montreal process the application). I run around and do everything the consulate wants (including getting tested for syphilus!), fly there for an interview and get issued the visa. This visa enables me to move and live in the United States. As soon as I cross the border I need to file another package of papers to adjust my status and to apply for a work authorization. Hopefully the work authorization is processed as quickly as they suggested on the website (same day!). After that is all taken care of I sit back and wait for INS to call for the big immigration interview. Sad part of the whole thing is that we could have applied for this back in November and it would have been all completed by now. DH and I could have found a house together, unpacked and figured things out before his deployment instead of being in this situation.

DH is running around like a mad man trying to get everything done for this new application and to prepare some forms that I'll need to have while he is gone to apply for my adjustment of status etc. I feel so bad for him. He leaves in a matter of days and is dealing with all of this along with his regular duties and getting ready for deployment. Hopefully everything we are doing turns out. Something has to work out at some point for us right?

Also found out that there may be complications with my car because my car loan is in Canada. I've had two different stories on that one today but I'm going to stick with the positive one that came from the county office in CO. The lady there told me that it didn't matter where my loan was at, even out of country was okay. Oh and get this! I have to write an examination and take a driver's test before getting issued a CO drivers license! You know I'm going to fail that puppy!! lol Thank God they don't charge for the tests and my Alberta drivers license is still valid while I'm in the process of getting a CO one. lol

Oh, and I found out that I've contracted the plague. The doctor has me under house arrest and on 1500mg of amoxicillin a day for two weeks! I asked when I can return to work or go out and he said not until I feel better. Thank goodness they can't fire a person twice from their job eh?

So now I sit here on the couch, coughing up a lung, and trying to learn everything I can about this new visa and line up all the papers to make it happen.

Susan (quarentined Canadian, surrounded by a ton of snow and paperwork from hell, and missing her husband like crazy)